Description | This series consists of papers largely relating to Humphrey Morice's businesses concerns. This includes papers directly relating to individual business transactions or ventures, such as 16A2/3/5, which relates to the voyage of the ship 'Sarah Galley'. It also includes papers which concern business more generally, such as reports and petitions concerning the state of trade.
Material within this series includes insurance certificates, business expenses and bills, reports concerning contemporary business affairs and petitions to parliament.
The series also includes seventeenth century promissory notes in German (16A2/3/1) which were found in this collection, although no direct link to Humphrey Morice can be discerned. |